Come on people lets give the public a little credit for not believing the B.S. your trying to feed us and get the stories straight. The public wants to be able to trust our civic leaders and when it comes to public safety we hope and pray that you are doing everything in your power to protect us.

The Citizens of Atlanta have now had enough of the escalating crime along with drastic cutbacks in police services, and are finally doing something about it; unfortunately it took the execution of a young man to wake up the community. Sadly enough this same scenario played out over 100 times in DeKalb County and it is only a matter of time before DeKalb's citizens get just as riled.

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Thanks for the embed of the video, John. As shown in the video, the city-wide org to inform people about news, meetings, rallies, etc. regarding rising crime in metro Atlanta is Atlantans Together Against Crime and Cutbacks (ATACC):http://atlantanstogether.org/

If there is not much crime in Dunwoody than how about our police force does enforce the traffic laws to afford a more pedestrian friendly, bicycle friendly and children playing in the streets friendly community. If you break the law, you pay the fine. If you drink anything over the limit of alcohol than you go to jail. I personally would be the first to lock the cell. Who are you people? I worry much more about you than the police.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there are state laws in place that limit the ability of local police to use fines, particularly traffic fines, for 'revenue generation'. Drug related seizure are separate. To eliminate the 10 MPH speeding cushion it needs to be a school zone or have the magic 'strictly enforced' signage. I think the cut-through speeders are still safe in Dunwoody.

The city certainly smacks of "ole times here are not forgotten" and is coming out the chute conservative if not downright prudish. That said, I haven't seen a compelling argument to either not enforce, or not have drunk driving laws as a matter of public safety. In fact, given current, credible research I'd like to see the City Council show enough courage to ban all cell phone use while driving. Maybe the welcome to dunwoody signs could say "pull over and talk" or "hang up and drive".

Heneghan Philosophy on Public Service

As a long time resident of the Dunwoody North community who created this blog to fulfill two ideals. First is that when I have the ability to make a difference, I have a responsibility to do so and second, transparency in Government breeds self-corrective behavior.

After the creation of the City of Dunwoody which I worked to establish, I stepped down from being the President of the Dunwoody North Civic Association to run for a seat on the new City Council. Since my election in 2008, I have prided myself of posting every public document and agenda item to this blog for all to see.